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  • Beara
    Brian A O’Sullivan / Brian a. O'Sullivan / Brian a. O’Sullivan
    A unique Irish detective thriller. A rare insight into Gaelic culture.Nobody knows much about reclusive Irish historian Muiris (Mos) O’Súilleabháin except that he doesn’t share his secrets freely. Mos, however, has a 'sixth sense for history, a unique talent for finding lost things'.Reluctantly lured from his seclusion, Mos is hired to locate the final resting place of legenda...
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    18,02 €

  • The Fallen Princess
    Sarah Woodbury
    Hallowmas 1144. With the harvest festival approaching, Gareth has returned from fighting in the south, hoping for a few months of peace with Gwen before the birth of their first child.But when an innocent foray to the beach turns up the murdered body of Prince Hywel's long lost cousin, a woman thought to have run away with a Dane five years earlier, it is Gareth and Gwen wh...
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    19,15 €

  • The Lost Pages
    RDFrancis
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    29,80 €

  • The Lost Pages
    RDFrancis
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    19,90 €

  • Pearl Harbor Blues
    Victoria Heckman
    It all began on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawai'i. Not only that the United States entered World War II, but a chain of events is set in motion that, fifty years later, becomes the setting for death. A family, a corporation, greed and power combine to reveal terrible secrets. Set on the island of O'ahu, a lush backdrop for heinous crime, a community icon ...
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    14,85 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Einstein’s Daughter
    Tim Symonds
    The Dean of a Swiss university persuades Sherlock Holmes to investigate the background of a would-be lecturer. To Dr. Watson it seems a very humdrum commission - but who is the mysterious ’Lieserl’? How does her existence threaten the ambitions of the technical assistant level III in Room 86 at the Federal Patents Office in Berne by the name of Albert Einstein? The assignment ...
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    18,61 €

  • The Holmes Sutra - 160 Sherlock Holmes Sayings for his 160th Birthday
    Jay Ganguly
    Sherlock Holmes, the best-known detective (sorry, consulting detective) on earth, celebrates his one hundred and sixtieth birthday on 6 January 2014. As a tribute to his genius, and to mark the occasion, The Holmes Sutra is presented (by a crazed fan) as: (a) a compilation of one hundred and sixty mantras (aphorisms/slogans/sayings - call them what you will) - some original, so...
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    12,47 €

  • Yulan - The Jade Orchid
    Hon Kei Poon / 潘光陽 / 潘漢基
    玉蘭，人如其名，是個多愁善感的純情少女。中日戰爭初期她在哈爾濱這個寒冷的國際大都會，有幸，或可以說不幸，認識並愛上了有雙重間諜身份的國民黨特工王劍豪。就此開啟了她幾近半個世紀的坎坷生涯。戰爭悲劇性的把一對戀人拆開。但兩人之間不朽的愛情，在精神上支持玉蘭度過了在那片戰禍連天的大地上苦難的半生。同一期間，特工王劍豪在震驚整個世界，改變了近代中國歷史的「西安事變」中充當了一個重要的角色。作者讓讀者嚐到了戀人被拆散抵死纏綿的創痛滋味，無情戰火蹂躪下的大地老百姓困苦的生涯，以及日本皇軍在被佔領的中國國土上令人髮指的無恥獸行。書中峰迴路轉的情節，加上二次大戰前後中國政壇上瞬息萬變的權力鬥爭，和男主角王劍豪在戰爭後期在敵後、前綫和大後方之間跑單幫轉運物資的危險經歷，更增加本書的可讀性。作者最後來了一個意想不到的結局，使本書成為一篇益發扣人心弦蕩氣迴腸的愛情懸疑小說...
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    19,38 €

  • The Adventures of Ethel King, The Female Nick Carter
    Jean Petithuguenin
    Daughter of a detective, Ethel King takes up her father’s career in order to avenge his death, as well as that of her fiancé, both brought down the same day by an assassin’s bullet. King, like Miss Boston and Therese Arnaud, is an extraordinary woman,well ahead of her time. Although she practices a masculine profession, she is seductive and charming, moves comfortably in high s...
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    23,23 €

  • Someone Is Stealing Children in Paris
    Louis Forest
    On 25 June 1906, the readers of the daily newspaper LE MATIN discovered this terrifying headline: 'SOMEONE IS STEALING CHILDREN IN PARIS! EVERY DAY! On the Grands Boulevards and quiet residential streets! Children have disappeared Boulevard Montmartre, Rue Caumartin, Rue Royale, Rue Racine, Avenue Niel, Passage des Panoramas, Cité Rougemont. In full daylight, with diabolical cu...
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    29,56 €

  • Hollywood at the Beach
    Mark Bird
    Fantasy and reality collide in California’s first modern motion picture factory. Moviemakers began to arrive in Los Angeles in the early 1900s to escape the control of Thomas Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company in New Jersey. Los Angeles also offered plenty of sunshine, inexpensive labor, cheap property, and varying landscapes for all genres of films. Producer/director Thom...
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    15,09 €

  • Turbulent Waters
    Betty J. Vaughn
    Love is personal, war is not, especially in North Carolina, 1865-1867, during the reconstruction. With a love they are certain will transcend all else, southern belle Penny Kennedy marries Union Officer and attorney, Ryan Madison, despite the condemnation of those around them. The initial days of wedded bliss end abruptly when Marcus, the man who courted Penny for years in anti...
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    12,42 €

  • Turbulent Waters
    Betty J. Vaughn
    Love is personal, war is not, especially in North Carolina, 1865-1867, during the reconstruction. With a love they are certain will transcend all else, southern belle Penny Kennedy marries Union Officer and attorney, Ryan Madison, despite the condemnation of those around them. The initial days of wedded bliss end abruptly when Marcus, the man who courted Penny for years in anti...
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    21,24 €

  • My Dear Watson - Japanese Version
    Margaret Park Bridges
    Japanese Language Edition - The greatest mystery surrounding Sherlock Holmes comes to light--was he actually a woman? The master--or perhaps mistress--of disguise finally puts pen to paper to reveal a decades-long deception and, in so doing, uncovers another shocking secret. The complex mind of the brilliant consulting detective is finally opened to the public, in the chronicle...
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    21,05 €

  • Murder in the Rockies
    G. Eldon Smith / GEldon Smith
    As his first case after graduating from an east coast law school, Andrew Coyle travels west to defend a rancher accused of murdering a miner. Public opinion and all the circumstantial evidence are against the accused and his tenderfoot lawyer.Coyle determines that he must find the real killer in order to prove his client’s innocence. But the task proves daunting and he is shot ...
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    12,97 €

  • Défenses légitimes
    Doric Germain
    Reesor Siding, Nord de l’Ontario, nuit du 10 au 11 février 1963. Un affrontement en forêt fait trois morts. Quelques semaines avant la nuit du drame, les travailleurs de la Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company déclenchent une grève. Or, les cultivateurs des environs, qui possèdent des droits de coupe, continuent de vendre leur bois à la papetière, au grand dam des ouvriers. Pie...
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    15,16 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Black Widower
    Kieran McMullen
    In the year 1908 Holmes believed himself to be in retirement. Watson was once again in private practice and unwed. Mrs. Hudson had gone to Sussex to act as Holmes’s housekeeper. But the fates had agreed that Martha Hudson and John Watson should be together. Or had they? When Dr. Watson proposes to Martha Hudson it sets off a series of events that only Sherlock Holmes can deal w...
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    21,24 €

  • Dr. Eunholder’s Device
    Cynthia Sens
    Mel Taylor has to deal with some strange challenges—like the inconvenience of setting off sparks when he comes within five feet of modern electronics, the result of being a time-traveling veteran of World War II. He’s doing his best to settle into a new life in a new time, but he can’t escape his complicated past, no matter how much he wants to, especially after surviving an ex...
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    19,62 €

  • Dr. Eunholder’s Device
    Cynthia Sens
    Mel Taylor has to deal with some strange challenges—like the inconvenience of setting off sparks when he comes within five feet of modern electronics, the result of being a time-traveling veteran of World War II. He’s doing his best to settle into a new life in a new time, but he can’t escape his complicated past, no matter how much he wants to, especially after surviving an ex...
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    28,03 €

  • The Monster Monroe
    Richard Null Pires
    Steven Fisher is about to be sent off to fight in World War II, but his patriotic zeal is tempered by a series of nightmares. He realizes that his psyche is trying to remind him of something-a promise he made to a deformed World War I veteran who saved his life years earlier. Steven looks back on his past, rediscovering his childhood and reflecting on the horrifying events that...
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    17,41 €

  • The Devil’s Playground
    Cynthia Sens
    It is 2011, and Mel Taylor appears to be just a regular guy—and yet he is anything but ordinary. Despite being born in 1916 and witnessing the devastation of World War II, Mel is only forty-four years old. Now this genealogist is trapped between painful memories of his past and his life in the present where he is plagued by confusing nightmares that rob him of his sleep. He is ...
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    18,46 €

  • The Devil’s Playground
    Cynthia Sens
    It is 2011, and Mel Taylor appears to be just a regular guy—and yet he is anything but ordinary. Despite being born in 1916 and witnessing the devastation of World War II, Mel is only forty-four years old. Now this genealogist is trapped between painful memories of his past and his life in the present where he is plagued by confusing nightmares that rob him of his sleep. He is ...
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    26,87 €

  • Entanglement of Fate
    Chris Brookes
    Sheffield, England, 1912. When a mute criminal known as ’the Street Arab’ is taken into custody, police call on court missionary, Robert Elliott, to try and unravel the enigma. With the help of Mary O’ Driscoll, a sharply perceptive nurse, Elliott reveals the prisoner to be Walter Stanford, a man with a blemished past and who is about to change their lives forever. As Elliott t...
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    16,80 €

  • The Agony Column
    Earl Derr Biggers
    From the creator of Charlie Chan!Set in England at the outbreak of WWI, The Agony Column is a murder mystery and romance told mostly through the device of an 'Agony Column' in the newspaper (what Americans would call the 'Personals'). ...
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    11,71 €

  • Crimes of the Levee
    John Sturgeon
    "This series is perfect for fans of historical crime!" –Anne Bonny Book ReviewsIt is 1905, and Chicago is an open town. The most accessible part of town is the Levee District. It is an area of the city that's hard to tell the crooks from the cops. There are brothels, madams, opium dens, gambling joints and plenty of alcohol, but it all comes at a price in the Levee, and the...
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    11,24 €

  • Prodigal Son
    Colleen McCullough
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    17,17 €

  • Stones of Fire
    Alan Joseph
    The DaVinci Code meets the deep seas in this thrilling page-turner filled with twists, turns and ancient secrets. The discovery of an ancient amulet leads to globe trotting intrigue and the unveiling of long kept secrets. This thinking man’s thriller will send adventure seekers and conspiracy theorists alike racing to the explosive conclusion. ...
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    13,66 €

  • Sleight of Fate
    Balaji Narasimhan
    Ok, so you have won a few Sherlock Holmes quiz prizes, but what if your life depended on your knowledge of the Sherlock Holmes stories? That’s the shocking fate facing a woman who is tied to a chair - if she can’t answer, she dies. As the questions get increasingly more difficult, the reader finds themselves realising when their time would be up in this most deadly of quizzes i...
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    12,50 €

  • The Making of a Man
    John Worth
    This extraordinary story unfolds in the dim streets of Victorian London’s notorious East End. Poverty, squalor and crime fester and proliferate, blighting the lives of all who are unfortunate enough to dwell there. Yet from within the gloom, a random illumination- a beam of light. The light of human dignity; just sometimes, righteousness, decency and justice win out. In thi...
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    20,99 €

  • Unhallowed Ground
    Mel Starr
    Thomas atte Bridge, a man no one likes, is found hanging from a tree near Cow-leys Corner. All assume he has taken his own life, but Master Hugh and Kate find evidence that this may not be so. Many of the town had been harmed by Thomas, and Hugh is not eager to send one of them to the gallows. Then he discovers that the priest John Kellet, atte Bridge’s partner in crime in A...
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    11,97 €


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